[FRIAM] AI and argument

[Nick Thompson]

Turn that question around:  How can even have a discussion if we don't assume that there is a truth of the matter?  "Truth" is what makes it possible to have a discussion.  

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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How can there be "convergent discourse" if there are no commonalities?

On 10/04/2017 11:56 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Peirce does not presume that there ARE any communalities.   He presumes only that if there ARE any communalities, they are what truth would be.  

> On 10/04/2017 09:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>> /*Imagining that there is a truth of the matter has the [pragmatic] effect of forcing us all into a convergent discourse and this effect is for Peirce the central meaning of the word truth.  He has great contempt for styles and fashions of criticism precisely because there is no commitment to convergence in such discourses.  Screw pluralism.


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